7 Bible Verses about The Sabbath

When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath." He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry, how he went into the house of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence which neither he nor his men were allowed to eat, but only the priests? read more.
Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath? I tell you, One is here who is greater than the temple. Besides, if you had known what this meant, I care for mercy not for sacrifice, you would not have condemned men who are not guilty. For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath."

Eight days afterwards his disciples were together again, and Thomas with them. Though the doors were closed, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

On the first day of the week let each of you put aside a sum from his weekly gains, so that the money may not have to be collected when I come.

On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread; Paul addressed them, as he was to leave next day, and he prolonged his address till midnight

Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.

At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the cornfields, and as his disciples were hungry they started to pull some ears of corn and eat them.

Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures,

but they passed on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. On the sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down; and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

On the sabbath we went outside the gate to the bank of the river, where as usual there was a place of prayer; we sat down and talked to the women who had gathered.

For he says this somewhere about the seventh day: And God rested from all his works on the seventh day.

There is a sabbath-Rest, then, reserved still for the People of God

The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."

Then he went down to Capharnahum, a town of Galilee, and on the sabbath he taught the people;

Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,

but they passed on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. On the sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down;

On the Lord's day I found myself rapt in the Spirit, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet calling,

On the Lord's day I found myself rapt in the Spirit, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet calling,

Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

so that the Son of man is Lord even over the sabbath."

And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath: